TEHRAN, September 15 -The large-scale evacuations ahead of Hurricane Florence will cause local gasoline shortages and price spikes if tankers can't reach them fast enough, analysts say. But there are no concerns about refineries or other energy infrastructure like there was when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last year.

TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) -The large-scale evacuations ahead of Hurricane Florence will cause local gasoline shortages and price spikes if tankers can't reach them fast enough, analysts say. But there are no concerns about refineries or other energy infrastructure like there was when Hurricane Harvey hit Houston last year.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries had been holding back oil production for years to push prices back up.

On Wednesday, the Energy Information Administration announced that the United States is now the world's top crude oil producer, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia.

The EIA doesn't publish crude oil forecasts for those countries, but it uses internal estimates to calculate Saudi production, while Russian data comes from the Russian Ministry of Oil. It also includes data from major oil drillers and the International Energy Agency. The United States is producing 11 million barrels of crude oil per month.

The Short Term Energy Outlook predicts that the United States will be the top oil producer through 2019.